This tool was designed to serve as a Swiss army knife for simplifying the common calculations required in the processes of remineralizing water and creating new recipes. Click on the following link to create a copy of the calculator spreadsheet on the main folder of your Google Drive. Water Recipe Calculator (v.18) – Google Sheets READ MORE
Water Remineralization Guide
This guide owes much to the blogs of Tea Secrets / Empirical Tea. Please refer to their posts for a comparison with a slightly different approach. NOTE THAT YOU ARE USING THIS GUIDE COMPLETELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ACCEPT NO LIABILITY FOR THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF INCORRECT, IRRESPONSIBLE, OR INCOMPETENT USE OF THE INFORMATION READ MORE
Purified Water Remineralization for Tea Brewing
茶者水之神，水者茶之體。非真水莫顯其神，非精茶曷窺其體。Tea is the spirit in water, while water is the body that carries tea.Without pure water, the spirit will not show itself.Likewise, without excellent tea, its body will be obscured.1Zhāng Yuán 張源, Chá Lù 茶錄, Tea Notes, 1595 精茗蘊香，借水而發，無水不可與論茶也。The fragrance of tea can only be uncovered by water.We cannot talk about tea, without water.Xǔ Cìshū READ MORE
An Attempt at Creating a Rosetta Stone of Primary Tea Biology
There has been a lot of debate on the topic of the limits of a taxonomical approach for understanding tea processing. With the goal of grasping what tea production is comprised of, is it more useful to think about it in terms of a series of succeeding independent steps, or as a continuum where each READ MORE